Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946),[1] better known as H G Wells, was an English writer best remembered today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the M Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"[2]He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and His later novels were more realistic; they covered lower middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the 'New Woman' and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica) He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social The Invisible ManFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchNot to be confused with Invisible Man, a novel written by Ralph Waldo E For other uses, see The Invisible Man (disambiguation)The Invisible Man First edition cover Author HG Wells Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher C Arthur Pearson Publication date 1897 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 278 pp ISBN NA The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by HG W Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a Plot summaryThe story starts in the English village of Iping in West Sussex, as curiosity and fear are started up in the inhabitants when a mysterious stranger arrives to stay at the local inn, The Coach and H The stranger wears a long, thick coat, gloves, his face is hidden entirely by bandages, large goggles, and a wide-brimmed The stranger is extremely reclusive and demands to be left alone, spending most of his time in his room working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at He quickly becomes the talk of the village as he unnerves the Meanwhile, a series of mysterious burglaries occur in the village in which the victims catch no sight of the One morning when the innkeepers pass the stranger's room, they enter in curiosity when they notice the stranger's clothes are scattered all over the floor but the stranger is nowhere to be The furniture seems to spring alive and the bedclothes and a chair leap into mid-air and push them out of the Later in the day M Hall confronts the stranger about this, and he reveals that he is invisible, removing his bandages and goggles to reveal nothing As M Hall flees in horror, the police attempt to catch the stranger, but he throws off all his clothes and The Invisible Man flees to the downs, where he frightens a tramp, Thomas Marvel, with his invisibility and forces him to become his lab Together with Marvel, he returns to the village where Marvel steals the Invisible Man's books and apparatus from the inn while the Invisible Man himself steals the doctor's and vicar's But after the theft, Marvel attempts to betray the Invisible Man to the police, and the Invisible Man chases after him, threatening to kill Marvel flees to the seaside town of Burdock where he takes refuge in an The Invisible Man attempts to break in through the back door but he is overheard and shot by a black-bearded American, and flees the scene badly He enters a nearby house to take refuge and dress his The house turns out to belong to D Kemp, whom the Invisible Man recognises, and he reveals to Kemp his true identity — Griffin, a brilliant medical student whom Kemp studied with at a Griffin explains to Kemp that after leaving the university he was desperately poor, and determined to achieve something of scientific significance, he began work on an experiment to make people and objects invisible, using money stolen from his own father, who committed suicide after being robbed by his Griffin experimented with a formula that altered the refractive index of objects, thus ensuring that the light would not bend when passing through, thereby making them He performed the experiment using a cat, but when the cat's owner, Griffin's neighbour, realised the cat was missing she made a complaint to their landlord, and Griffin wound up performing the invisibility procedure on himself to hide from Griffin theorizes part of the reason he can be invisible stems from the fact he is albino, mentioning that food becomes visible in his stomach and remains so until digested, with the bizarre image passing through air in the After burning the whole house down to cover his tracks, he felt a sense of invincibility from being However, reality soon proved that sense After struggling to survive out in the open, he stole some clothing from a dingy backstreet shop and took residence at the Coach & Horses inn to reverse the He then explains to Kemp that he now plans to begin a Reign of Terror (The First Year of the Invisible Man), using his invisibility to terrorise the nation with Kemp as his secret Realising that Griffin is clearly insane, Kemp has no plans to help him and instead alerts the When the police arrive, Griffin violently assaults Kemp and a policeman before escaping, and the next day he leaves a note on Kemp's doorstep announcing that Kemp will be the first man killed in the Reign of T Kemp remains cool and writes a note to the Colonel, detailing a plan to use himself as bait to trap the Invisible Man, but as a maidservant attempts to deliver the note she is attacked by Griffin and the note is Just as the police accompany the attacked maid back to the house, the Invisible Man attacks Kemps house by smashing the windows with rocks and an axe, he then breaks in through the back door and makes for K Keeping his head cool, Kemp bolts from the house and runs down the hill to the town below, where he alerts a navvy that the Invisible Man is The crowd in the town, witnessing the pursuit, rally around K When Kemp is pinned down by Griffin, the navvy strikes him with a spade and knocks him to the ground, where he is violently assaulted by the Kemp calls for the mob to stop, but it is too The Invisible Man dies of the injuries he has received, and his naked and battered body slowly becomes visible on the ground after he Later it is revealed that Marvel has Griffin's notes, with the invisibility formula written in a mix of Russian and Greek which he cannot read, with pages washed